/* This file is part of Sawa, the Scriptic-Java compiler
 * Copyright (C) 2009 Andre van Delft
 *
 * Sawa is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

package scriptic.tools;

import scriptic.tools.lowlevel.ConstantPoolClass;

abstract class NonArrayReferenceType extends NonArrayType {
   public boolean isReference() {return true;}

   // reference for this to CONSTANT_Class item in another classType's constant pool
   private ClassType createdForConstantPoolOwner;
   private ConstantPoolClass classRef;
   public  ConstantPoolClass classRef (ClassType constantPoolOwner) {
      if (classRef==null  // cashed value per constant pool(owner)
      ||  createdForConstantPoolOwner != constantPoolOwner) {
          createdForConstantPoolOwner  = constantPoolOwner;
          classRef =constantPoolOwner.resolveClass (getNameForClassRef());
      }
      return classRef;
   }
}

